TY - JOUR AU - Christine Jenkins AB - Approximately one hundred young adult novels with gay/lesbian/queer content have been published since the first one appeared in 1969. Building on earlier content analysis research, this article provides three theoretical approaches to understand the evolution of this subgenre, drawing on the work of Gerda Lerner, Rudine Sims Bishop, and George Chauncey. It concludes by highlighting themes and patterns that suggest the progress that has been made and has yet to be made in the realistic portrayal of gay/lesbian/queer lives in young adult fiction. BT - Library Quarterly IS - 3 LA - English N2 - Approximately one hundred young adult novels with gay/lesbian/queer content have been published since the first one appeared in 1969. Building on earlier content analysis research, this article provides three theoretical approaches to understand the evolution of this subgenre, drawing on the work of Gerda Lerner, Rudine Sims Bishop, and George Chauncey. It concludes by highlighting themes and patterns that suggest the progress that has been made and has yet to be made in the realistic portrayal of gay/lesbian/queer lives in young adult fiction. PY - 1998 SP - 298 EP - 334 T2 - Library Quarterly TI - From Queer to Gay and Back Again: Young Adult Novels with Gay/Lesbian/Queer Content, 1969-1997 VL - 68 ER -